GM,
Wishing everyone a prosperous late year of the Dragon 🐲. Due to my wife giving birth yesterday, this week's article will be postponed until Thursday, and the podcast on Wednesday will proceed as usual. Once things settle down this week, the articles will resume on Tuesday next week.
GM, Can you believe 2025 is already halfway over? Starting next week, Blocktrend will be taking its annual mid-year publishing break. That means four articles and two podcast episodes will be on pause—think of it like scheduled maintenance. Even though the car (my brain) still runs fine, we can’
GM, The Blocktrend Lifetime Membership campaign is underway. By popular demand, I’ve added a credit card payment option and extended the offer until Thursday, June 26 at 24:00. That said, I still encourage everyone to pay with cryptocurrency—don’t miss the rare chance to actually spend crypto.
GM, This is the 700th issue of Blocktrend. Whew — first, I want to thank you. Then, I want to thank myself. Recently, I updated the About page on Blocktrend: There are no ads here — this publication serves you. Traditional media make money from ads, so they chase traffic, not readers.
GM, Last year, Stripe—the leading brand in "online card readers"—acquired stablecoin API startup Bridge for $1.1 billion, ushering in a golden era for stablecoins. Last week, Stripe announced another acquisition of a crypto startup—embedded wallet developer Privy—with the aim of ending the dial-up